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Why Can't You Just Leave Me The Hell Alone?!?!?
Don't worry, we will.
We care about you. We care that you get the right meds, or don't take meds if they aren't appropriate at all. We care about your health.
Be we really don't give much of a rat's ass about who you are, what your e-mail address is (except that a valid one is required if you register for Crazy Meds Talk), where you live, how much money you have, what sort of computer you use or anything like that. The forum software also requires cookies to work. I can find out the IP addresses of visitors if absolutely required. It's the only way we can effectively ban total dickweeds. And as stated in the user agreement, you start discussing anything highly illegal, like selling drugs, you can bet your ass it gets turned over to the appropriate law enforcement officials as soon as it's asked for. And, sure, we've discussed which browsers have been used on occasion. But only to make things easier for everyone, not as part of the Windows World Domination scheme.
On the subject of Crazy Meds Talk, the software used for the forum (Invision Power Board IPB) uses a few cookies to save your login information, when you were last on so it can tell you which topics are new, that sort of stuff. IPB software doesn't track where you go or collect any information about you. Cookies are required if you wish to be a member of the forum, but you don't need to accept cookies to read without joining. There is an option to delete all the cookies associated with your IPB session if you don't like any cookies hanging around.
Google, on the other hand, is giving you a cookie when you visit any page on this site that has advertising. It's all part of their new (starting 8 April, 2009) targeted advertising campaign. You know, making the ads more relevant to you by tracking the websites you visit and all that. Reality is catching up with satire and/or science fiction faster and faster these days. If you don't want the new masters of the universe tracking the websites you visit you have two options. You can opt out of this service (because it's always opt out) and/or do what I do, which is setting your browser to never accept third-party cookies. For more information read the page with the opt-out option, as it also has Google's new privacy information regarding ads. For everyone who likes hot office babes, watch the videos of Maile Ohye explaining cookies in general and how ads like Google's work to magically know
Now I do keep and publish a record of visitors' top-level domains (i.e. the country you're in), because I'm geeky like that.
Another thing that is of interest to us is how you came to visit us, and if you found this site through a search engine what particular words you used in your search. Sometimes those search terms help us try to make this site better. Sometimes they just amuse us to no end.
Oh, don't be embarrassed by our being amused by your particular choice of search terms, we have no way of connecting a search to you. Whoever needed to know about "Prozac" and "porno boobs," I hope you found what you were looking for. We do our best with that sort of thing. We don't know who you are, where you are or when you were even looking for that connection. It would be difficult for the FBI to track you down if they had to, for us it's utterly impossible.
Coming out of the mental health closet is your decision. Stigma is a big deal in the English-speaking world. Just because we're all out in the open about everything doesn't mean you have to be. You may not be in a place in your life to come out. That's fine with us. We respect your privacy.
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If you're letting me know about how much you like or hate the site, or need to
let me know about medication effects in private, then just drop a note to jerod23 here at
crazymeds.org Honestly, I usually don't have a lot of time to answer e-mail these
days. The snide autoresponse message that may or may not hit your mailbox is going
to tell you the same thing.
Another problem is that you may not get a response even if I wanted to send you one.
You see, so many dickweeds with malicious intents and too much time on their hands have
appropriated the crazymeds.org domain name to use for their spam, viruses and the
like. Subsequently some lazy-ass e-mail protection software authors just go by the
domain name, and not the IP address. So I've been blacklisted because of the actions
of others. Or the software just doesn't like the domain name because of the
"crazy" and/or "meds." Or your question about a particular
medication will set off spam flags. So the e-mail just wouldn't go through
regardless. Sorry.
Hey, did you find this page all by itself through Google or some other search engine? Great! But to really appreciate the entire site, you need to start here.
Created Thursday, Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Last updated Monday, May 24, 2010
Copyright © 2003 - 2010 Jerod Poore. All rights reserved.
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"Everything is true, nothing is permitted." - Jerod Poore
